A Discipline, Not a Checklist
Every engagement runs through the same five phases. Five to ten working days on average — the phases are fixed, the depth and tooling adapt to your environment.
Scope
Nothing gets tested until we've sat down with your team directly — this isn't a form you fill out and send back. Together we settle the asset list, what's in bounds and what isn't, who to call the moment something looks wrong, and how far we're permitted to go. That conversation sets the terms for everything that follows.
Reconnaissance
We look before we touch anything — public records, certificate logs, breach databases, anything visible from outside your walls. From there we move to active scanning to identify live ports, running services, and the technology behind them. What comes out the other end is a picture of your real exposure, and it regularly includes systems your own team forgot were reachable.
Vulnerability Identification
Automated tooling covers ground quickly, but nothing lands on your desk unreviewed. An engineer works through every result against the reality of your environment, drops what doesn't apply, and keeps what could realistically be turned into an actual attack — rather than handing you a long list a scanner produced on its own.
Exploitation & Risk Analysis
A finding doesn't count until it's been proven, so we build a safe proof-of-concept for anything worth keeping. When several smaller issues can be linked into something bigger, we walk that path end-to-end and write down exactly how it unfolds. We never cause actual damage, but we make the impact undeniable — a severity label with no evidence behind it isn't useful to anyone.
Reporting & Remediation
You receive two distinct documents, not one report trying to serve two audiences. Leadership gets a plain-language explanation of business risk, no jargon. Your engineers get exact reproduction steps, the payloads used, and fixes written at the code level. Once the critical and high-severity issues are patched, we come back and confirm they're actually closed — that retest is included, not billed separately.
Standards We Test Against
Every report maps findings back to the frameworks your engineering and compliance teams already work with.
OWASP
We check findings against the OWASP Top 10, ASVS, and MASVS, and include a coverage matrix in the report when your audit process needs one.
NIST
Our testing structure follows NIST SP 800-115, and we can align reporting to the Cybersecurity Framework where that's part of your compliance work.
PTES
The engagement phases mirror the Penetration Testing Execution Standard, so the process fits cleanly into what auditors already expect.
MITRE ATT&CK
Network and red team engagements are documented with technique references throughout, not just at the summary level.
CWE / CVE
Where it applies, individual findings are tied back to known weakness and vulnerability identifiers for your specific stack.
ISO Control Families
[If certified, list your ISO 27001 / 9001 status here — otherwise we align testing to these control families without claiming certification.]
This is the rhythm every engagement runs on
Kickoff to retest in 5–10 working days, two separate reports, and nothing left unverified at the end.